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Distant Strangers
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Author : Judith Lichtenberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014
Distant Strangers written by Judith Lichtenberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Business & Economics categories.
Lichtenberg argues for a practical and moral approach to reducing poverty, exploring concepts such as altruism, responding to criticisms of the effectiveness of aid, and asking whether and how the world's richer populations should assist. This book is for those interested in ethics, political theory, public policy and development studies.
Distant Strangers
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Author : James Vernon
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-08
Distant Strangers written by James Vernon and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08 with History categories.
What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in Britain, a place long held to be the crucible of modernity, a new and distinctly modern social condition emerged by the middle of the nineteenth century. Rapid and sustained population growth, combined with increasing mobility of people over greater distances and concentrations of people in cities, created a society of strangers. Vernon explores how individuals in modern societies adapted to live among strangers by forging more abstract and anonymous economic, social, and political relations, as well as by reanimating the local and the personal.
Rightful Relations With Distant Strangers
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Author : Aravind Ganesh
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Rightful Relations With Distant Strangers written by Aravind Ganesh and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Law categories.
This book provides a philosophical critique of legal relations between the EU and 'distant strangers' neither located within, nor citizens of, its Member States. Starting with the EU's commitment in Articles 3(5) and 21 TEU to advance democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in 'all its relations with the wider world', Ganesh examines in detail the salient EU and international legal materials and thereafter critiques them in the light of a theory of just global legal relations derived from Kant's philosophy of right. In so doing, Ganesh departs from comparable Kantian scholarship on the EU by centering the discussion not around the essay Toward Perpetual Peace, but around the Doctrine of Right, Kant's final and comprehensive statement of his general theory of law. The book thus sheds light on areas of EU law (EU external relations law, standing to bring judicial review), public international law (jurisdiction, global public goods) and human rights (human rights jurisdiction), and also critiques the widespread identification of the EU as a Kantian federation of peace. The thesis on which this book was based was awarded the 2020 René Cassin Thesis Prize (English section).
The Distant Stranger
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Author : Palma Harcourt
language : en
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Release Date : 1985-01-01
The Distant Stranger written by Palma Harcourt and has been published by Ulverscroft this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-01-01 with Large type books categories.
Twenty-five years ago, two East Germans, one a famous writer, the other a politician, attempted a border-crossing to the West. Today the ramifications of this flight to freedom involve the security and intelligence services of Britain, the United States, Canada and the German Democratic Republic. Hugh Merryck, and S.A.S. officer, is recruited to trace the present whereabouts of one of the distant strangers. The stakes turn out to be so high that murder and attempted murder become almost routing, and the climax is unexpected and dramatic.
Distant Strangers
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Author : Judith Lichtenberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-24
Distant Strangers written by Judith Lichtenberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-24 with Philosophy categories.
What must affluent people do to alleviate global poverty? This question has occupied moral and political philosophers for forty years. But the controversy has reached an impasse: approaches like utilitarianism and libertarianism either demand too much of ordinary mortals or else let them off the hook. In Distant Strangers, Judith Lichtenberg shows how a preoccupation with standard moral theories and with the concepts of duty and obligation have led philosophers astray. She argues that there are serious limits to what can be demanded of ordinary human beings, but this does not mean we must abandon the moral imperative to reduce poverty. Drawing on findings from behavioral economics and psychology, she shows how we can motivate better-off people to lessen poverty without demanding unrealistic levels of moral virtue. Lichtenberg argues convincingly that this approach is not only practically, but morally, appropriate.
Bounds Of Justice
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Author : Onora O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-10-26
Bounds Of Justice written by Onora O'Neill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-26 with Philosophy categories.
Argues for a concept of justice that takes account of boundaries, institutions and human diversity.
Opting For The Best
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Author : Douglas W. Portmore
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Moral Theory
Release Date : 2019
Opting For The Best written by Douglas W. Portmore and has been published by Oxford Moral Theory this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Philosophy categories.
We ought to opt for the best-that is, we ought to choose the option that is best in terms of whatever ultimately matters. So, if maximizing happiness is what ultimately matters, then we ought to perform the option that results in the most happiness. And if, instead, abiding by the Golden Rule is what ultimately matters, then we ought to perform the option that best abides by this rule. However, even if we know what ultimately matters, this is not always sufficient for determining which option we ought to perform. There are other questions that we need to consider as well. Which events are options for us? How do we rank our options-in terms of their own goodness or in terms of the goodness of the best options that entail them? How exactly does that which ultimately matters determine which options we ought to perform? In Opting for the Best, Douglas W. Portmore focuses on these three questions, which he argues can best be answered by putting aside any specific determination of what ultimately matters. He argues that tackling these three questions is crucial to solving many of the puzzles concerning what we ought to do, including those involving supererogation, indeterminate outcomes, overdetermined outcomes, predictable future misbehavior, and good acts that entail bad acts, among others. Engaging with arguments in areas as wide-ranging as action theory and deontic logic, the solutions that Portmore offers systematize our thinking about some of the most complex issues in practical philosophy.
Development Challenges For Development
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Author : Stuart Corbridge
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2000
Development Challenges For Development written by Stuart Corbridge and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Business & Economics categories.
Brings together more than one hundred articles dealing with the discipline of development in all its diversity. Key topics include the transformation of peasant economies, argibusiness, rural-urban relations, markets, industrialization, workers, trade, aid and structural adjustment. A unique set in its comprehensiveness and diversity, it also considers four key challenges for development theory and practice relating to capabilities, ethics, sustainability and regulation.
Staging Strangers
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Author : Barry Freeman
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2017-03-01
Staging Strangers written by Barry Freeman and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Twenty-first-century media and political discourse sometimes makes "strangers" - refugees, immigrants, minorities - the scapegoats for social and economic disorder. In this heated climate, theatre has the potential to promote greater compassion and empathy for outsiders. A study of cultural difference in contemporary Canadian theatre, Staging Strangers considers how theatre facilitates an understanding of distant places and issues. Theatre in Canada, and especially in Toronto, has long been a place for communities to celebrate their traditions, but it is now emerging as a forum for staging stories that stretch beyond the local and the national. Combining archival research and performance analysis, Barry Freeman analyzes the possibilities and hazards of representing strangers, and the many ways the stranger on stage may be fetishized or domesticated, marked for assimilation, or turned into an object of fear. A fresh look at ways to cultivate ethical responsibility for global issues, Staging Strangers imagines a role for theatre in creating a more tolerant, caring, and cooperative world.
The Supremacy Of Love
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Author : Eric J. Silverman
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-08-27
The Supremacy Of Love written by Eric J. Silverman and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-27 with Philosophy categories.
Thirty-five years ago Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue established virtue ethics as a major challenger to competing visions of morality, but there is still considerable disagreement concerning which version of virtue ethics provides the best approach. The Supremacy of Love describes and advocates an agape-centered vision of Aristotelian virtue ethics that portrays love as the most important moral virtue, and the goals of love as a partial constituent of every genuine virtue. This structural improvement to Aristotelian virtue ethics—found originally in the ethics of Thomas Aquinas—enables this account to address several controversial topics in contemporary virtue ethics, including why the virtues cannot be used badly, in what sense is there a unity between the virtues, how the virtues benefit the virtuous person, and how virtues provide action guidance. Eric J. Silverman demonstrates how and why a distinctly love-centered approach to virtue ethics should make the view widely attractive in comparison to alternative accounts of virtue ethics, duty based deontological theories, as well as results-based consequentialist views.